[3] She was one of the main actors of Charles Fossey's conference at the École pratique des hautes études and obtained the title of graduate student with a work under his direction (Contracts from the Seleucid period in the Louvre Museum[4][5]).

This book attracted the attention of André Aymard, “who thanked Miss Rutten for having accompanied her copies with translations and transcriptions, thus allowing Hellenists to have access to this documentation”.

[7] In 1937 she became Georges Contenau's assistant and in 1940, she was a substitute teacher at the École du Louvre for André Parrot, who had been mobilised.

[8] For thirty years, she also taught public art history courses on oriental archaeology at the École du Louvre in the evenings, as part of the Rachel Boyer Foundation.

[2][nb 1] The fact that she was a woman and, above all, personal enmities prevented Mr Rutten from taking up the position of Curator and she remained an assistant to the National Museums until her retirement.